A Variation on Goldilocks
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 8560
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"Why's that?" Stacy asked. "Because we've got to materialise in the narrow
span of
time between when the TARDIS dematerialised to come here and when the big
bang occurred.
If we should materialise too early, then the Master would have detected
it. That will mean that our current
timeline would become invalid, and would not have happened, because we
know that in this timeline
the Master didn't detect the
TARDIS materialising. If he detected us materialising, everything we have
experienced
recently would have happened
differently, with unpredictable results. In addition to that, having two
instances
of the TARDIS in the same time and nearly the same place is a little
dangerous."
"Go for it, Doctor," said Melissa. "I'm sure you can do it." So the Doctor set the co-ordinates, and the TARDIS dematerialised and then rematerialised...
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JH (time paradoxes are hard to explain clearly!)
3/31/2000 1:46:56 PM
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